After posting the article last week, I wrote individual emails to the Senators in the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee that will be considering the bill and discovered sending an email to a Senator’s direct email address is ineffective. Don’t bother trying to contact a Senator by his or her email address as it triggers a blanket response that advises one to contact the Senator at his or her website to express your concerns. Also, I have a theory that contacting a Senator from a district that you’re not a constituent of might decrease your odds of being heard. Look up who the Senator is for your district.

The message you send via the Senator’s website will route you through a gauntlet of unpaid college interns, staff assistants, Legislative Correspondents (LCs), Legislative Assistants, (LAs), and lastly the Senator. To gain support for S.B.1239 it will take a lot of people to persevere a process that’s seemingly designed to wear people out. Contact the Senator for your district and express you would like them to support S.B.1239.

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That said, we’ve included the web address of each Senator on the Senate Transportation and Housing Committee, so please make contact and ask the Senators to support passing S.B.1239.